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We've restructured our site over the past 6 months and I'm going to run you through the whole scenario as I would love any feedback you guys have.

6 months ago we had 2 websites http://boulders-climbing.com (climbing facility) and http://bouldersuk.com (shop).

We made the decision to merge the websites and leverage the SEO on 1 site. Although boulders-climbing.com was the older and more established domain, the company wanted to use bouldersuk.com so a whole new website was designed and boulders-climbing.com was redirected to bouldersuk.com. The climbing facility website now sits at bouldersuk.com and the shop was moved to bouldersuk.com/climbing-shop with 301's for all shop pages.

This has lead to a significant a increase in domain rank for bouldersuk.com and much better rankings for the climbing centre related terms. The desired effect has been achieved, well half of it anyway.

The search rankings for bouldersuk.com/climbing-shop have never reached the previous heights and are still heading in the wrong direction, even though the overall domain ranking has increased by 50%.

What can I do to get the SEO for /climbing-shop working again? We're adding fresh content to our latest news with links through to products and categories, all category pages have A grades. we are attempting to link build but it is much more difficult for e-commerce than for the facilities pages.

Is the SEO of the main site hampering(masking?) the /climbing-shop?

All feedback on the whole process would be much appreciated.

Thanks!

We have just combined 2 sites by redirecting a site with a domain ranking of 35 to a site with a domain ranking of 27 (this is because the we want to use the address with a ranking of 27)

After a week I now have 1 domain with a ranking of 26??

So my questions are;

1. Should the ranking have increased already?
2. What should I expect the ranking to increase to if at all?
3. Is there something I could have done wrong when transferring?

Thanks

is there a guide for getting the most out of the keyword ranking tool?

I currently have 250 or so keywords, some move up, some move down on a weekly basis but generally trend up. That's about as much info as I gain from it though.

anyone got any good tips?

thanks